After countless days and countless nights, I've finally set foot on the street again looking for that one character, just one character that will once again be a reminder of how I fell in love with the beauty, the story, and the inspirations that strangers have shared with me.

I'm still amazed by how sincere my observation was during the past years of approaching people I never met and take their pictures. I've always thought that about 90% of people enjoyed being photographed, and that has been proven in my experience many, many times. Take this photo for example. I saw this man working on a rubber stamp pad in his mini workstation in a corner of a sidewalk along Aurora Blvd in Cubao. The smile did the trick and when I asked if I can take a photo of him, there was no hesitation, zero, nothing. He just smiled back at me and said YES. :)